Green Energy
From the Daily Caller (hat tip to Bunkerville):
- The Fcc Will Begin Investigating Bias In The Media (conservative Bias)
Did you know we are ruled by TV? From the Wall Street Journal via Ace: News organizations often disagree about what Americans need to know. MSNBC, for example, apparently believes that traffic in Fort Lee, N.J., is the crisis of our time. Fox News, on...
- Obama's Ftc Plan To Reinvent America's News Media
Why should the United States Government have anything to do with the "Reinvention of Journalism"? From the LA Times Blogs: What's widely-known is that Americans are not buying newspapers anymore in droves. What hasn't been widely-known, until...
- Now The Federal Goverment Is Looking At Taking Over News Organizations Too
They call it "support", and state that such help is "vital to Democracy". We have gotten to a place in history where it we are not surprised to find our government telling us it is vital to Democracy that news organizations be bribed. What kind of news...
- When They Pry My Keyboard Out Of My Cold Dead Fingers
FCC Commissioner: Return of Fairness Doctrine Could Control Web Content McDowell warns reinstated powers could play in net neutrality debate, lead to government requiring balance on Web sites. By Jeff Poor Business & Media Institute 8/12/2008...
- Flash! Media Reports On The Doings Of Muslim - Muslims Angered
London's Mayor Ken Livingstone, who seems never to have met a radical Islamist he didn't like, is unhappy with the way Muslims are portrayed in the media. It seems the media reports many negative stories of the goings and doings of Muslims. Imagine...
Green Energy
FCC Monitoring
From the Daily Caller (hat tip to Bunkerville):
FCC to police news media, question reporters in wide-ranging content surveyCan scrutiny of the blogosphere be far behind?
The Federal Communications Commission is planning a broad probe of political speech across media platforms, an unprecedented move that raises serious First Amendment concerns.
The FCC’s proposed “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs,” which is set to begin a field test in a single market with an eye toward a comprehensive study in 2014, would collect a remarkably wide range of information on demographics, point of view, news topic selection, management style and other factors in news organizations both in and out of the FCC’s traditional purview.
The airwaves regulator would also subject news producers in all media to invasive questioning about their work and content.
[...]
Among the questions federal contractors will be asking of private media companies:
For media owners:
“What is the news philosophy of the station?”
For editors, producers and managers:
“Have you ever suggested coverage of what you consider a story with critical information for your customers (viewers, listeners, readers) that was rejected by management?” (Followup questions ask the reporter to speculate on why a particular story was spiked.)
[...]
“In this study, the FCC will delve into the editorial discretion of newspapers, web sites and radio and TV stations,” Hudson Institute Fellow Robert McDowell, who served as an FCC commissioner from 2009 to 2013, told The Daily Caller. “This starts sticking the government’s nose into what has traditionally been privileged and protected ground. Regardless of one’s political stripes, one should be concerned.”
- The Fcc Will Begin Investigating Bias In The Media (conservative Bias)
Did you know we are ruled by TV? From the Wall Street Journal via Ace: News organizations often disagree about what Americans need to know. MSNBC, for example, apparently believes that traffic in Fort Lee, N.J., is the crisis of our time. Fox News, on...
- Obama's Ftc Plan To Reinvent America's News Media
Why should the United States Government have anything to do with the "Reinvention of Journalism"? From the LA Times Blogs: What's widely-known is that Americans are not buying newspapers anymore in droves. What hasn't been widely-known, until...
- Now The Federal Goverment Is Looking At Taking Over News Organizations Too
They call it "support", and state that such help is "vital to Democracy". We have gotten to a place in history where it we are not surprised to find our government telling us it is vital to Democracy that news organizations be bribed. What kind of news...
- When They Pry My Keyboard Out Of My Cold Dead Fingers
FCC Commissioner: Return of Fairness Doctrine Could Control Web Content McDowell warns reinstated powers could play in net neutrality debate, lead to government requiring balance on Web sites. By Jeff Poor Business & Media Institute 8/12/2008...
- Flash! Media Reports On The Doings Of Muslim - Muslims Angered
London's Mayor Ken Livingstone, who seems never to have met a radical Islamist he didn't like, is unhappy with the way Muslims are portrayed in the media. It seems the media reports many negative stories of the goings and doings of Muslims. Imagine...